Isaac Watts; his life and writings, his homes and friendsHood, Edwin Paxton
Religion
Isaac Watts; his life and writings, his homes and friends
Hood, Edwin Paxton
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Countess of Hertford and Mrs. Rowe, 172;
and the Rise and Progress of Religion, 167
Coward, William, 142
Critics, hostile, 111
Cromwell, Richard, 80
Crucial events, 14
Daughters, a group of, 36
Death, 259
Defoe in the pillory, 208;
quoted, 15
Derby, Earl, and the blind woman, 134
Devotion the attribute of Watts’ hymns, 113
Dissenters, Shortest way with, 78
Doddridge, Dr. Philip, 151
Dying, 262
Elegy, a lovely, 36
England in the times of the last Stuarts, 12
England’s history, happiest period of, 206
English hymnology, 99
Epigram, an, 174, 255
Erskine, Ralph, and Watts’ hymns, 122
Expression, fervour of, 65
Faith, expressions of personal, 117
Family, in the Hartopp, 32
last of the Hartopp, 38
Father, imprisonment of Watts’, 1
Fleetwood, General, 35
Foster, John, _quo._, 215
Friend, letter to an afflicted, 53
Friends, Watts’, 136
Fuller, Thomas, on death, 260
Gale, Theophilus, 16
Gardiner, Colonel, 166
Gibbons, Dr., _quo._, 53, 54, 89, 256, 260, 261
Girdlers’ Hall church, 22
Gloucester academy, the, 25
Glover’s “Leonidas,” 175
Grandfather and grandmother of Watts, 4
Gunston, Thomas, 220
Harris, Robert, _quo._, 257
Hart, Josiah, 20
Hartopp, Sir John, 33;
daughters of, 36
Hartopps, last of the, 38
Hertford, Countess of, 172;
friendship with Watts, 174;
letters, character of, 173;
letters to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;
modesty, 182;
poetry, 177, 184
Hervey, James, 148;
letter to Watts, 150
Hollis family, the, 51
“Horæ Lyricæ,” 57
House in French Street, the old, 11;
old Abney, 223;
Stoke Newington, 32;
Theobalds, 79
Hughes, John, 20
Hymns, Apostolic, 90
Hymn, Augustine’s definition of a, 92;
origin of Watts’ first, 30;
? what is a, 93
Hymnology, Christian, 91;
English, 99
Industry, mental, 50;
of Watts, 249
Johnson, Dr., _quo._, 17, 18, 75, 96, 313
Jones, Rev. Samuel, 25
Jennings, Dr., _quo._, 272
Keble’s “Christian Year,” 89;
criticism of Watts’ poetry, 103
Ken, Bishop, and Watts contrasted, 59
Kennedy, Dr., _quo._, 111
Kentish petition, the, 207
Knox, A., criticism on Watts, 102
Latin, thinking in, 105
Letters—Countess of Hertford to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;
Doddridge to Watts, 164;
Doddridge’s dedicatory, 155;
Hervey to Watts, 150;
Jewel to Peter Martyr, 99;
Lord Barrington to Watts, 147;
of Enoch Watts, 84;
Secker to Watts, 25;
to Amsterdam, 160;
to an afflicted friend, 53;
to Bradbury, 195, 197;
to Doddridge, 153:
to Samuel Say, 141;
to Thomas Rosewell, 139;
Watts to his father, 6
Liddon, Canon, _quo._, 90
Lispings in numbers, 7
Logan and Doddridge, 162
London in Watts’ day, 42
Luther’s songs, 97
Macaulay, Lord, _quo._, 211
Mansion, an old family, 32
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